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Introduction
Antibiotic resistant bacteria infect more than two million people and kill around 23,000 people in the United States annually (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013, p. 11). In addition, antibiotic resistant bacteria cost the United States over twenty billion dollars in healthcare and are estimated to reduce productivity by thirty-five billion dollars in the US alone (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013, p. 11). According to the Centers for Disease Control and…

FRIENDLIEST BACTERIA
The world each year continues to waste more and more plastic. Companies want to decompose all of the plastic to make way for the new plastic that is coming in with new collections of plastic that are done daily. As time goes by, more and more plastic is collected, it has been predicted that the plastic collected will grow 400% or go from 1.7 million tons in 2014 to 7.8 million tons in 2019 (Prieto, 2016). Researchers all over the world are trying to find…

Bacteria vs. Virus
Bacteria are known to have distinct structural characteristics and evolutionary lineage. Rods (bacilli) and cocci (spheres) are common bacterial shapes. In addition, bacteria may be comma-shaped (vibrio), spiral (spirillum and spirochetes), or filamentous; they may form buds and stalks; or they may have no characteristic shape (pleomorphic). Some cells remain together after division to form pairs, chains, and clusters of various sizes and shapes. Frequently observed bacterial…

Life is divided into three distinct groups: Eukaria, Bacteria and Archaea. Out of these three domains the last two had been characterized almost as equal . However with the advent of DNA sequencing, it has been widely shown that Bacteria and Archaea are phylogenetically distant organisms. In fact, some theories suggest that they have not even evolved from a common ancestor but most likely the result of convergent evolution (Ganesh Ram R. Visweswaran & Bauke W. Dijkstra. 2011). One important distinction…

INTRODUCTION
Probiotics are the good bacteria that keep everything in balance. They help by neutralizing the toxic products during digestion . This in turn helps strengthen the immune system. They are available in foods and other suppliments.
Prebiotics are the soluble fibres that keep the probiotics alive and multiplying. Both are needed to have a healthy digestive system.They encourage the growth of beeneficial bacteria and work closely with probiotics to reduce the risk of several disease.…

antibiotics. However, some bacteria are known for causing diseases such as the common cold, AIDS, Herpes, and Chicken Pox. Knowing the identity of microbes is essential for knowing the causative agent of a disease in order to provide patient’s effective treatment. The purpose of this lab is to identify the unknown bacteria that was given. Applying all of the techniques that have been learned in the lab will help identify and distinguish the unknown bacterium. While identifying the bacteria, it is important…

sequences in DNA. E. Coli was the bacteria that was first used to accept the plasmid known as pSC101 which was resistant to certain antibiotics (Genetics and Genomics Timeline). After repetition of this new process they decided to use the genes from the Xenopus laevis toad into E. Coli bacteria. They saw that the bacteria reproduced at an astonishing rate and recorded that the genetic material from the toad passed through different generations of E. Coli bacteria. Soon after these experiments, there…

Unknown bacteria determined to be Alcaligenes faecalis because of its morphological, physiological and metabolic properties.
In a laboratory setting, it often becomes necessary to identify an unknown organism. In this experiment, researchers classified an unidentified bacterium based on its physical structure, colony morphology, optimal conditions and metabolic properties. A Gram stain using crystal violet, iodine, and safranin and a simple stain using methylene blue characterized the organism’s…

Viruses, bacteria, and prions are all quite different, but they all share one commonality: they can all cause disease in humans. All three are also organic, in one way or another. Despite this, only bacteria are properly alive by most definitions. Bacteria are also the most complex, followed by viruses, and then finally, prions.
Bacteria
As mentioned in the introduction, bacteria are the most complex organizations that will be covered in this paper. Bacteria were among the first forms of life…

What are bacteria?
Bacteria are very different from viruses. First of all, bacteria are much larger in size. The largest virus is only as big as the very smallest bacterium (singular for bacteria). But bacteria are still microscopic and cannot be seen with the naked eye. They are so small that the sizes of bacteria are measured in micrometers (10,000 micrometers = 1 centimeter). By comparison, the head of a pin is about 1000 micrometers wide. Though more complex than a virus, the structure of a…